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Primary Care: Clinics in Office Practice, 1995
Cost-effectiveness analysis is increasingly recognized as an important element for health policy formation. Family physicians will be affected by these analyses because they will influence the manner and type of care that physicians offer. The principles of cost-effectiveness research are straightforward and offer primary care clinicians the ...
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Cost-effectiveness analysis is increasingly recognized as an important element for health policy formation. Family physicians will be affected by these analyses because they will influence the manner and type of care that physicians offer. The principles of cost-effectiveness research are straightforward and offer primary care clinicians the ...
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Cost-effectiveness analysis and capital costs
Social Science & Medicine, 1998Traditionally, economic evaluations in terms of cost-effectiveness analysis are based, explicitly or implicitly, on the assumption of constant returns to scale. This assumption has been criticized in the literature and the role of cost-effectiveness as a tool for decision making has been questioned.
G, Karlsson, M, Johannesson
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Cost-effectiveness analysis in surgery
Surgery, 1998With tighter constraints on health care spending, many recognize the need to identify and restrict clinical interventions that are not cost-effective. As a result, cost-effectiveness analysis is being used increasingly to assess the relative value of surgical interventions.We first present the general concept of cost-effectiveness analysis and review a
S R, Finlayson, J D, Birkmeyer
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Cost-effectiveness analysis and innovation
Journal of Health Economics, 2008While cost-effectiveness (CE) analysis has provided a guide to allocating often scarce resources spent on medical technologies, less emphasis has been placed on the effect of such criteria on the behavior of innovators who make health care technologies available in the first place.
Anupam B, Jena, Tomas J, Philipson
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Future costs in cost effectiveness analysis
Journal of Health Economics, 2008This paper resolves several controversies in CEA. Generalizing [Garber, A.M., Phelps, C.E., 1997. Economic foundations of cost-effectiveness analysis. Journal of Health Economics 16 (1), 1-31], the paper shows accounting for unrelated future costs distorts decision making. After replicating [Meltzer, D., 1997.
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Estimating ‘Costs’ for Cost-Effectiveness Analysis
PharmacoEconomics, 2008Since 1999, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) Technology Appraisal Programme has been charged with producing guidance for the NHS in England and Wales on the appropriate use of new and existing healthcare programmes. Guidance is based on an assessment of a number of factors, including cost effectiveness.
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Medicare and Cost-Effectiveness Analysis
New England Journal of Medicine, 2005In this article, the authors discuss the obstacles to the use of cost-effectiveness analysis in Medicare decisions about coverage. They argue that policymakers could avert the impending financial crisis facing Medicare by incorporating cost-effectiveness analysis into a comprehensive strategy to allocate health care resources more rationally.
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The Road to Cost-Effectiveness Analysis
The Milbank Memorial Fund Quarterly. Health and Society, 1982the application of cost-benefit analysis to health care can be found in the work of Selma Mushkin (1958), work which is both in the mainstream of economics and in the vanguard of health economics. In cost-benefit analysis the mainstream has meant a preoccupation with the measurement (valuation) of economic benefits. As seen by economists, the essential
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A Primer on Cost-Effectiveness Analysis
Clinics in Podiatric Medicine and SurgeryA cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) is a type of health economics model that uses a systematic approach to simplify the complexities that exist in health-care decision-making. A CEA aids in medical decision-making by considering both the costs of a treatment and how effective that treatment is for at least 2 competing strategies.
Rachel H, Albright, Adam E, Fleischer
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What is cost‐effectiveness analysis?
Medical Journal of Australia, 1990The treatment of mild-to-moderate hypertension is used to illustrate the role of cost-effectiveness analysis in assessing the economic efficiency of pharmacological interventions. The reasons why it is important to consider economic efficiency are discussed, after which the major issues involved in conducting a cost-effectiveness analysis are outlined.
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